[virt-tools-list] [virt-manager RFC PATCH v2 0/7] libosinfo support for virt-manager

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com> writes:

> So, plan for applying this. I want to get a new virt-manager release out
> before mid February, and I'd like to hold off on applying these till after the
> new release. Reason being is that a new enough libosinfo doesn't even exist
> yet, so I want to give that some time to propagate, and at least exist in
> fedora rawhide. And then we can have more time to try and take advantage of
> the other libosinfo goodies for the follow up release.
>
> So let's claim virt-manager.git osdict.py as officially fossilized, no new
> changes will be applied there. And if you can find out when the next libosinfo
> release is, and possibly nudge it sooner rather than later, thatll help too.
> Once the new virt-manager release goes out, and libosinfo is released, we can
> apply these patches to git and go from there.
>
> Thoughts?

that makes sense.  We must depend from a future libosinfo release as the
current version causes a crash whenever we try to get a full list of the
OS and it misses some OS that are already part of osdict.py.

I've pushed the series, rebased on top of master to the
libosinfo-conversion branch.

Giuseppe